I remember someone mentioning this name in class last week, and although they did not show his work they described it as best as they could. Now I don’t know whether it was the way his paintings were described or just the way I imagined the painting itself – but one way or the other I became intrigued by his style and thought I’d delve in to it a little further. And I do not regret this one little bit.
“Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.” His pictures didn’t have a beginning or an end – I think that is what made me become fond of his work. This is where the theory comes in play where the artist knew what he wanted to exactly convey to the audience – but the audience don’t know this. So when the audience has a look at it they each manage to decipher a different meaning to what he did and didn’t intend.
Pollock’s unique art style did not just come to over night, he would practice and practice in his barn of a studio vigorously hour after hour until he got it perfected. And it was in this very barn that he perfected his method of spontaneously painting with liquid paint that his first piece of art was given birth to.
“Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.” His pictures didn’t have a beginning or an end – I think that is what made me become fond of his work. This is where the theory comes in play where the artist knew what he wanted to exactly convey to the audience – but the audience don’t know this. So when the audience has a look at it they each manage to decipher a different meaning to what he did and didn’t intend.
Pollock’s unique art style did not just come to over night, he would practice and practice in his barn of a studio vigorously hour after hour until he got it perfected. And it was in this very barn that he perfected his method of spontaneously painting with liquid paint that his first piece of art was given birth to.
Pollock lost at work
The technique of Pollock’s painting was all about the movement of the body (which he has control of), mixed with the ferocious flow of the paint and then you get the power of gravity helping to absorb the paint in to the canvas – I guess this is a mix of the uncontrollable and the controllable. He would drip, pour, fling and spatter the paint while moving around on his canvas, almost as if dancing to the tempo of his artwork, and he doesn’t stop until he created what he imagined in his minds eye.
I really enjoyed writing up about Jackson Pollock, but I shall never forget how it was the media’s fault that Pollock committed suicide after they kept making accusations that his work was not the work of art, and whenever he tried advancing in another direction which hadn’t been explored yet in art they would say the same thing and bring his dance routine to an end. And then after so many times of being halted in so many directions he finally got himself drunk, got in to his car and committed suicide. The media weren’t invited to comment on whether his art was good or bad, if they had just kept quiet then this conqueror may have gone on to explore and take over new depths of impressionism/action art. They may have killed the artist but his art still survives. The art of Jack the Dripper (dubbed by Times magazine, 1956).
Links:
Flash website that lets you work like him:
http://www.jacksonpollock.org/
I really enjoyed writing up about Jackson Pollock, but I shall never forget how it was the media’s fault that Pollock committed suicide after they kept making accusations that his work was not the work of art, and whenever he tried advancing in another direction which hadn’t been explored yet in art they would say the same thing and bring his dance routine to an end. And then after so many times of being halted in so many directions he finally got himself drunk, got in to his car and committed suicide. The media weren’t invited to comment on whether his art was good or bad, if they had just kept quiet then this conqueror may have gone on to explore and take over new depths of impressionism/action art. They may have killed the artist but his art still survives. The art of Jack the Dripper (dubbed by Times magazine, 1956).
Links:
Flash website that lets you work like him:
http://www.jacksonpollock.org/
In depth feature of the artist:
http://www.nga.gov/feature/pollock/
Artcyclopedia (lots of info):
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/pollock_jackson.html
Books:
Jackson Pollock / Author - Ellen G. Landau
ISBN – 13: 978-0500285848
No Limits, Just Edges: Jackson Pollock Paintings on Paper
Author - David Anfam & Susan Daidson
ISBN - 13: 978-0892073269
Love Affair Memoirs – Jackson Pollock / Author – Ruth Kligman
ISBN – 13: 978-0815410096
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